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Ex-Obama spokesman on Benghazi email: 'Dude, that was like two years ago'

Former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor appeared Thursday on Fox News to downplay recently revealed emails that have revived the controversy over the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, but his exasperated use of the word "dude" has now taken on a life of its own.

In the interview, Fox host Bret Baier repeatedly pressed Vietor over his role in altering talking points for then-United Nations ambassador Susan Rice, asking the White House aide if he changed the word "attacks" to "demonstrations" in the preparation materials.

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Republican critics have charged that the White House deliberately downplayed suggestions that the Benghazi, Libya, attack was terrorism to protect the president's reelection chances.

When Vietor responded that he "maybe" changed the word choice but did not "really remember," an incredulous Baier asked, "You don't remember?"

"Dude, this was two years ago," Vietor replied. "We're still talking about the most mundane thing."